Dealey-class destroyer escort

USS Dealey (DE-1006)
Class overview
Operators	United States Navy  National Navy of Uruguay  Colombian National Navy
Preceded by	John C. Butler class
Succeeded by	Claud Jones class
Subclasses	Oslo class Admiral Pereira da Silva class
Built	1952–1957
In commission	1954–1994
Completed	13
Preserved	1
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer escort
Displacement	1,314 long tons (1,335 t) light, 1,877 long tons (1,907 t) full load
Length	314 ft 6 in (95.86 m)
Beam	36 ft 9 in (11.20 m)
Draft	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion	2 × Foster-Wheeler boilers 1 × De Laval geared turbine 20,000 shp (15 MW) 1 shaft
Speed	25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h)
Complement	170
Sensors and processing systems	Mark 63 fire-control system
Armament	4 × 3-inch/50 caliber guns 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × ASW torpedo racks 2 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × DCT (K-guns)

The Dealey-class destroyer escorts were the first post-World War II escort ships built for the United States Navy.

Slightly faster and larger than the escort destroyers they succeeded, the Dealey class were fitted with twin-mounted 3-inch (76 mm) guns, anti-submarine (ASW) rockets, a depth charge rack and six depth charge launchers. There were later modernizations that removed the ASW rockets and the depth charges in favor of nuclear-capable anti-submarine rocket launchers and torpedo mounts which fired lighter homing torpedoes. A large SQS 23 sonar was refitted in a bow sonar dome and most of the class were also fitted with a hangar and landing pad for DASH drone helicopters to deliver MK 44 and Mk 46 torpedoes. The drone helicopters proved very unreliable and their failure contributed to the relatively short life of the class.

They were decommissioned in 1972 and 1973 in favor of the Knox-class frigate. Dealey and Hartley were sold at surplus to other countries in 1972, with the remainder of the class being sold for scrap.